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Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) has developed a program to address the packaging needs associated with the transport of hazardous and…
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The hazardous materials (hazmat) packaging development and certification process is currently defmed by two different regulatory…
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A Type B package bas to withstand severe thermal accident conditions. To calculate the temperature behaviour of such a package in a real…
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In consideration of high burn-up plan for LWR fuel and future transportation of spent fuel to the Rokkasho reprocessing plant, the High…
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Relevant duty of a Competent Authority is to verify that the transport of radioactive material is carried out in compliance with national…
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The information in this paper summarizes historical data on spent nuclear fuel shipments in the United States (U.S.) from the period from…
Human Factors, System Safety, and Systems Engineering in the Transportation of U.S. High-Level Waste
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The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board is an independent agency charged with evaluating the technical and scientific validity of the…
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been laboring since 1988 over a far reaching change to its model regulations (IAEA, 1990…
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Energy-absorbing materials such as wood, grout, and polyurethane foams have been used as impact limiters in radioactive-materials transport…
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For a long time, medium level wastes generated by EOF reactors (such as ion-exchange resins and filters) have been immobilized within a…
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Packagings for the shipment of radioactive materials are required to survive a sequence of hypothetical accident conditions. Regulatory…
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NCS operates a security vehicle licensed for the transport of category I nuclear material. Main application is the transport of fresh MOX…
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Radioactive material transport casks use either lead or depleted uranium (DU) as gamma-ray shielding material. Stainless steel is…
Information Management and Collection for U.S. DOE's Packaging and Transportation Needs in the '90's
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The Transportation Assessment and Integration (TRAIN) Project (US DOE 1992) was established to provide a systematic approach to identify…
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In the past, numerous programs, projects, and design concepts for packaging and materials production have taken place without all the…
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According to IAEA regulations, type B packages should be tested for outer pressure equal to 200m depth and simulating an accident condition…
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As a result of the international standardization of containeriz.ed cargo handling in ports around the world, maritime shipment handling is…
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On January 1, 1991, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) initiated a transition to adopting a modified version of current…
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The paper gives an example of international cooperation in the transport of frontend materials from a country entering large-scale…
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Experience with transport packages for radioactive materials has revealed unexpected discrepancies between different techniques used to…